Siddharth – Experimental Archaeology / Experiential History

Week 10: ExARC Showcase Data

This final week of the term represented the culmination of all our hard work this Spring: we held an Experimental Archaeology Showcase. We had eight different stations, each manned by the pairs who did the lab summary for their respective weeks. So, myself and Julia were at the woodworking station, because we did the lab…

Week 9: Turf Building

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Lab Summary Week 8: Woodworking

By Siddharth Srinivasan and Julia Tassava Word Definition adze like an axe, but its blade is perpendicular to instead of parallel with the handle chaîne opératoire the systematic order in which an item, tool, or artifact is constructed chest brace drill a traditional-style drill used for boring holes in wood (see Fig 8) draw knife…

Week 8: Woodworking

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Week 7 Lab Journal: Blacksmithing

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Week 6 Lab Data: Pottery Firing

This week we fired the clay pots we made in Week 3. My group, Group E, fired our pots together with Group F. We measured the data for three pots: Hope’s pot, Elek’s pot, and Gisele’s pot – in other words, one from each group (Hope’s and Elek’s from E and F, respectively) and one…